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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Tobelo in Indonesia


Earthquake location 1.174S, 128.4083WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia on Thursday. Id of earthquake: us10004xsw. Event ids that are associated: us10004xsw. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.72 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:07:10 / 3:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 128.4083 East, latitude 1.174 North, depth = 18.72 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/03/16 / 2016-03-10 06:07:10 / March 10, 2016 @ 6:07 am.

Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 75 km SE of Tobelo, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.4083° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 1.174° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km SE of Tobelo, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-10 06:07:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-08 05:18:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 246 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.115 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10004xsw Id of event.
Event Code 10004xsw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004xsw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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